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Updating the Vivaldi Themes website

2023-02-082023-02-09 — Posted inBrowser, CSS, Design, HTML, JavaScript, Technology, Web technologies — 4 min read

About a month ago, we started working on this little project, and as you can see, we launched the new UI today.

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Gmail has a spam problem

2022-12-292022-12-29 — Posted inSystem Administration, Technology — 3 min read

Or rather, the rest of us have a Gmail spam problem…

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Apostrophes and being wrong

2021-11-222021-11-22 — Posted inDesign, Typography — 2 min read

The problem with being opinionated about something is that it can be much harder to admit that you’re wrong.

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The impact of music

2021-09-022021-09-12 — Posted inGaming, HTML, Music — 3 min read

I added the original Atoms music to the Atoms-www game. It’s so much better now!

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What is truth?

2021-07-292023-02-09 — Posted inDatabases, Software, System Administration, Technology — 3 min read

Today a MariaDB database index corruption left me questioning reality itself.

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A noisy check: part two

2021-04-052021-04-19 — Posted inSoftware, System Administration — 15 min read

The check was noisy, but it was producing useful graphs, and though I could have disabled the alerts, they were a handy reminder that “you should really look into fixing that when you get the chance”. And so they stayed… for 3 months.

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A noisy check: part one

2021-04-012021-04-05 — Posted inSoftware, System Administration — 9 min read

This story begins from me wanting to be a good little sysadmin and make sure all our services are properly monitored…

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Adventures with MTA-STS

2020-11-222020-11-23 — Posted inSoftware, System Administration — 11 min read

As I am not a normal person, I run my own mail servers. These servers handle email for a couple of domains and are used by myself and a couple of family members. Here’s a look into an investigation of an unusual mail delivery problem.

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Let’s Encrypt + Salt: cert+key distribution

2020-10-252023-02-09 — Posted inConfiguration Management, Software, System Administration — 10 min read

Looking at how to use Salt to distribute certbot-generated SSL certificates and keys securely to the appropriate servers.

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Vivaldi.net blogs update

2020-02-122020-10-25 — Posted inDesign — 1 min read

We just released a minor update for the vivaldi.net blogs. Here’s some of what’s new.

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Code blocks

2020-01-202020-10-25 — Posted inSoftware, Web technologies — 2 min read

Code blocks are now enabled and working on the vivaldi.net blogs. Here are some simple demonstrations of them in action.

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Thomas is a UK citizen living as an immigrant in Norway. He works as a System Administrator and Backend Developer for Vivaldi Technologies. When not working, he indulges in his hobbies of gaming (video/table-top/role-playing), singing (opera), cycling in the Norwegian countryside, writing about himself in the third person, and more sysadmin/web-dev stuff.

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  • Updating the Vivaldi Themes website

    2023-02-08

  • Gmail has a spam problem

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  • Apostrophes and being wrong

    2021-11-22

  • The impact of music

    2021-09-02

  • What is truth?

    2021-07-29

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